Closer's Coffee

APRIL 23, 2020

Here’s What You Need To Know About The Inside Sales and Outside Sales Roles. As companies seek to grow their sales numbers it’s not always clear which sales approach to take. As companies seek to grow their sales numbers it’s not always clear which sales approach to take. Inside Sales Reps.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2020

One route into the position of a sales manager is promotion from having been a highly successful salesperson. They are suddenly saddled with the responsibility of the entire sales team. Fortunately, though, sales management is a craft that can be learned. This will help a sales manager to get up and running.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 7, 2019

Without regularly reviewing productivity, time management, and communication skills, there is no tangible way for a manager to monitor and improve sales success. Sales Performance Review Examples. Maybe they're a new rep who's close to hitting their quota but is just shy each month. 2 = Needs improvement.

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SBI

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Inside sales reps who engage prospects with a personalized pitch see better open rates, have longer conversations, and book more meetings. But migrating from a traditional cold calling model to one that requires a high-level of customization can be challenging, even for the most sophisticated inside sales environments.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

.” As a modern digital magazine, Sales POP! Our content is aimed at empowering sales leaders, sales management, sales professionals and entrepreneurs to achieve new heights of success. Because every sale starts with a connection. Sales Management Blog. Sales Gravy. Connect2Sell.

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Xactly

APRIL 30, 2018

Outside sales representatives often travel to meet clients at their location of preference, whether it be at their company conference room or for a lunch meeting. These face-to-face interactions usually involve higher-dollar sales for the employer. Managing Outside Sales. Defining Inside Sales.

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Close.io

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about how to set up actionable sales dashboards; from what metrics to track, to how to design a dashboard your team will actually understand and use, including: What is a sales dashboard? How to create a sales dashboard catered to your sales team. What it means.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

What is inside sales? Let’s kick things off with a definition of inside sales. The inside sales model is built around the idea of sales reps working from their desks, without leaving the office. This means the inside sales process relies on digital communication, as well as phone calls.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2023

Inside sales reps are tasked with nurturing leads and converting them into customers. Glassdoor estimates that inside sales reps often have a take-home pay of $70,000, including commission and bonuses. Outside sales representative positions include some travel time to meet with buyers and pitch products.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales managers are critical to the success of their sales reps. While sales managers are charged with ensuring reps meet their numbers, how they meet their numbers is not as simple as it once was. Yet businesses often under-invest in their sales managers. Can your sales reps wait that long?

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Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2017

Sales managers are critical to the success of their sales reps. While sales managers are charged with ensuring reps meet their numbers, how they meet their numbers is not as simple as it once was. Yet businesses often under-invest in their sales managers. Can your sales reps wait that long?

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Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank Top of Funnel 52

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 108

Don on Selling

JUNE 27, 2021

Sales Managers must act like Coaches to build successful sales teams. It’s not because they don’t want to improve and generate more sales. The real culprit is that most sales managers don’t know how to coach. For example, some do well in cold calling, and others do not. Set the example.

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ExecVision

MAY 18, 2018

Remote teams are nothing new in the sales world–field reps have been closing deals outside of the office since practically the beginning of time. Working remotely is however, a newer development in inside sales. Here are ten steps for building a remote inside sales team that smashes quota and remains engaged: 1.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

VPs of Sales are asking questions like: Is our Sales Process good enough? Are my Sales Managers good enough? Do This— Start with a Sales Strategy Blueprint. To have a sales strategy you can execute, it must follow a structured path. Over 125 sales executives participated in vetting this approach.

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Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

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Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 71

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Amy Appleyard , the recently appointed SVP of Global Inside Sales at CarbonBlack. . Amy walks us through her background from being an SMB entrepreneur to leading large sales teams and why sales emerged as her true calling. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Inside Sales Lead Rank Lead Scoring Company 54

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As if the looming year end wasn’t pressure enough for a sales leader trying to meet sales quota, will the loss of top sales reps pile on? The HR Leader can take some concrete steps to stop the exit of sales reps and therefore the loss of revenue. Help the sales leader identify any reps that are at risk of leaving.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Managing a sales team is a lot of work, too. Ensuring that goals and sales targets are ambitious but reachable, taking broad business growth goals and distilling them down to a sales quota for every rep of every level, and mentoring and coaching sales reps throughout their tenure with your company are all just part of the job.

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Hubspot Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Call-back 98

Mindtickle

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Our discussion opened with a clear acknowledgement that Sales team effectiveness was an issue even before the pandemic hit. The convergence of inside and outside sales. Companies are pouring money into the inside sales channel. SaaS-ification of industries outside of technology.

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Networking Conversion Scale Face-to-face 105

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier sales talent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech. Table of Contents What is inside sales training? Here are five reasons you should.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 9, 2022

There’s a statistic floating around the internet that says the average inside sales rep only spends 33% of their time actively selling. I’m not sure if I agree with that figure but time management is an undervalued skill among sales reps. For example, we read an email, say to ourselves, “I’ll get to this later.”

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2020

The figure is one of the most straightforward, definitive metrics for understanding whether your sales processes, methodologies, and overall strategy are actually worthwhile. It can expose deeper-rooted, more systemic problems in your sales efforts — revealing if your sales operations are sustainable.,

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2019

Compare channel sales to the direct sales model, in which a company’s own reps sell to clients. Examples of Sales Channels. So, which sales channels can you choose from? Here are some examples of sales channels through which you can sell your product or service. Affiliate partners. Distributors.

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Channels Lead Rank Hiring Lead Scoring 96

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The first reaction is that AI is the “big brother” that management is bringing in to keep tabs on reps. Today, for example, some companies are using AI to monitor how many hours employees are actually working by secretly analyzing their webcams. The second common reaction is that AI is a joke: untested, unproven, and often wrong.

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Scale Remedy Sales Qualified Lead Coaching 102

Close.io

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The first step toward actionable sales benchmarking is identifying the metrics that matter most to your organization. Over the years, we've seen the following metrics stand out as key performance indicators for inside sales teams: sales cycle , quota attainment, average deal size, bookings, win rate.

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Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A trusted advisor, coach, and mentor, Laurie uses her two decades of strategic sales management experience to build the capacity of The Bridge Group and each of its inside sales consultants. Those same skills are used to help her B2B technology clients build, expand, and optimize their inside sales teams.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2020

A recent, somewhat extreme example with a large professional services company; they thought their average deal size was significantly above $5M. Each of these organizations had reasonably performing sales people. There is, often, a feeling the average deal size is significantly higher than it actually is.

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Gong.io

APRIL 9, 2019

Here’s the SECOND way sales coaching has changed…. The shift from FIELD sales, to INSIDE sales means one thing: Data. You can use conversion rate data to identify what stage of your sales cycle your reps struggle with (more on that later). MOST sales coaching targets the wrong reps! Here’s an example….

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Sales Coaching Coaching Top of Funnel Call-back 121

Mindtickle

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Our discussion opened with a clear acknowledgement that Sales team effectiveness was an issue even before the pandemic hit. The convergence of inside and outside sales. Companies are pouring money into the inside sales channel. SaaS-ification of industries outside of technology.

Networking 52

Networking Conversion Scale Face-to-face 52

Nutshell

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

It’s a tale as old as time: Your sales team isn’t meeting its goals. You thought you hired the right people and that everyone was a good fit for the company, so why aren’t they exceeding their quotas? It’s a technique that has just as much usefulness in the sales room as on the factory floor. They aren’t closing enough sales.”.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Brian is a long time sales executive and sales leader. He brings a diverse background in sales management experience spanning from startups to large public companies in both field and inside sales. How to use quota to drive outcomes and results. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Rest assured, if sales skills are average, opportunities are being missed. Some sales organizations likely would exceed their blown sales budget in the first quarter. Here’s a real-world example. A SaaS technology provider with a ten person inside sales team had an average closing rate of 30 percent.

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Don on Selling

APRIL 15, 2020

And don’t think for a minute that if you work an inside sales job making phone calls, that your customers can’t tell how you’re feeling. Do what you have always been doing to maintain or exceed your quota. For example, are you offering some free products and services? Sales can sometimes be a cutthroat business.

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Openview

MAY 30, 2018

Lead generation or business development reps (BDRs) will obviously need to have their performance measured and compensated against different leading indicators than inside sales reps and sales management may need to be compensated based on an altogether different set of metrics. Turnover in sales is typically high.

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Compensation Top of Funnel Lead Rank Commission 147

SalesLoft

JANUARY 31, 2018

In the 21st century, this dogma extends beyond face-to-face conversations and into the virtual communication that comprises inside sales. I’m one of the sales managers here. Today I want to talk to you about the importance of discovery calls for the sales team, particularly as the discovery pertains to pain.

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Your Sales Management Guru

AUGUST 27, 2012

As an example; do you change the “stage” of the sale prior to a certain sales activity taking place (demonstration) or do you change the “stage” after the activity has taken place (demonstration)? Like the Salesperson’s Business Plan, each Account Plan is presented to the entire sales team. Acumen Management Group Ltd.

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